Senior Snowflake Cloud Data Architect & SME

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Koniag Government Services is seeking a Cloud Data Architect (Snowflake), SME to lead Snowflake architecture and data integration for federal customers in the Washington, DC area. The role requires translating complex data requirements into scalable, governed cloud data solutions and providing senior technical leadership.

The candidate will design, optimize, and secure data pipelines, collaborate with governance and cybersecurity teams, and produce operational runbooks and design decisions for

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud data engineering, analytics, or data platform implementations.
• 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake or comparable cloud data platform design/implementation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Snowflake architecture patterns for data integration, analytics, governance, performance, security, and operational sustainment.
• Develop target-state data models, schemas, warehouse structures, and integration patterns for enterprise data sources.
• Guide Snowflake integration with data catalog, BI, identity, security, and workflow platforms across the Digital Workplace.
• Establish technical standards for ingestion, transformation, storage, access control, data sharing, and metadata capture.
• Support performance tuning, cost optimization, workload isolation, warehouse sizing, and platform monitoring.
• Collaborate with governance, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams to meet federal security and compliance expectations.
• Produce architecture diagrams, implementation guidance, data interface specs, design decisions, and runbooks.

Skills

Snowflake architecture

Data modeling

ETL/ELT patterns

Security controls

Data governance

Cloud services

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

dbt

Fivetran

Matillion

Informatica

Airflow

Job description

Koniag Government Services is seeking a Cloud Data Architect (Snowflake), SME to lead Snowflake architecture and data integration for federal customers in the Washington, DC area. The role requires translating complex data requirements into scalable, governed cloud data solutions and providing senior technical leadership.

The candidate will design, optimize, and secure data pipelines, collaborate with governance and cybersecurity teams, and produce operational runbooks and design decisions for